A lock that anyone can close but only one person can open sounds impossible, yet it follows directly from Euler's phi function and the ancient mystery of prime factorization. This is the mathematical ...

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Unscathed by pandemic-era school closures, the nation's 9-year-olds showed progress in math and reading. It's a different ...

A little more than five years ago, a shiny white Falcon 9 rocket made its debut flight, boosting a Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Over the next year, it would launch a ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

A third grader from Mercer County made an impressive debut at the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday before getting tripped up on a written test. Sid Srinivasan, 9, ...

The researchers were not involved in the initial math calculations but stepped in afterward to review the software's workings and help rewrite the findings. Instead of trying to arrange dots on a flat ...

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI. The company, based in San Francisco ...